8 Key Takeaways for FM Procurement Professionals
Taken from the discussions between members at a recent CASME RoundTable Meeting, check out these 8 points to review as the pandemic continues:
- Clarify how the company's real estate strategy will be amended as employees work from home
- Reassess catering services and consider solutions such as home deliveries to employees
- Ensure that the quality of services and user experience are maintained for employees who cannot work from home, such as those working in factories or laboratories
- Discuss options with FM service providers for adapting to the reduced demand, to help them to avoid redundancies; for example, by providing home office cleaning services to employees
- Assist FM service providers to retain or reallocate their employees
- Continue to pay FM service providers, despite the reduction in demand, so that they can avoid the need to furlough their employees, and to promote a positive company image
- Engage with the service providers to develop strategies to support them in the future
- Consider options for enabling employees to return to working on-site at the company's facilities, such as providing them with COVID-19 vaccines and tests, and home or on-site body temperature scanners.
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